the debate fails, what happens when it comes to changing the senate rules. it is not just manchin and sinema. the white house is very well aware that there are other united states senators. it is reported that senator chester, at one point, senator coons who i think, if you asked him today, he would be willing to vote to do away with the carve out for the filibuster for voting rights. asked him though. i don t speak for senator coons. would be some folks who have signaled some trepidation. i think that the kong force asian is not as black and white as people would like it to be. again, the president has to exert and show the base that he is doing something here. the levers, the tools, which he has in his ballot that he is using. that is what you have seen over the last couple of weeks. and of the last couple of months privately. the vice president has traveled, convening people. what happens after tuesday, wednesday. when the vote, pardon me, comes. is there going to be an executive or
still with us victor jaw di fran victoria and bill. the reverend said, look, democracy is in trouble. if we say it is the worst attack since the civil war, the answer has to be massive, what needs to happen here? we need to see a movement. it is really very much looking at the playbook of the 1960s. what was the playbook pushing over two dozen jim crow law has restricted voting across the american south? we are starting to see the same thing, chris. what we are seeing in this fight is folks going to washington. i m going to assert my texas bias here, but i really think that the presence of the texas democrats from the legislature here has really helped keep them in the spotlight. but then at the same time you see the grassroots marches, the civil disobedience we saw with sheila jackson-lee getting arrested yesterday. we see the march going to
culminate in washington, d.c. a month from now. all of these pieces together are what is causing this movement because, look, at the end of the day the republicans in legislatures across the southern states and some other states as well have the numbers. but as a result of that you see the pressing need of mobilization from all of these different areas as we re seeing right now, but ultimately it has to be a federal-level protection just like we saw in 1965. so if that s the goal, bill kristol, for folks who want to do something about voting rights, protecting people s right to vote, the president met with democratic leadership on passing a narrower voting rights bill, but really what are the chances that republicans are going to really negotiate here, be willing to get on board with something? i don t know that the chances many or certainly any republicans coming on board are at all good. but i will say this. they have done what people thought they couldn t do, which is they re ab
think where we would be in that case. i don t know how your heads don t ex please. you have this, the january 6th commission, we talked about covid, how the white house is trying to deal with that. the bipartisan infrastructure plan isn t done yet. little movement on voting rights, on police reform. all of it really key elements of the biden agenda, and the house is in recess, the senate is expected to leave a week from tonight although schumer has threatened to keep people here. what is the administration s strategy for moving things along? yeah, i mean right now they are kind of allowing congress to do their thing. behind the scenes they re having the conversations. you know, president biden spent a lot of time in congress, 36 years, eight years as kind of the emissary as vice president to capitol hill. so he knows how to have these conversations. he worked with a lot of these members that are there now, especially some of these senators. that is their focus, is trying to move th
it would be surprising. mitch mcconnell certainly is a place where good ideas go to die. but i do think there may be something where mcconnell when criticized for not working with biden can say, no, no, some of our colleagues were there on infrastructure, on police reform. you can see the argument where they can say, on everything else, you know, there s too much catch phrasing. there s too much voting reform. we re not going to do any of that, but we were there on policing reform and infrastructure. which, again, could be a good thing, but you have to look at the entire path and see. that s what they re up to. i would be surprised if mcconnell gives them that long a leashing but i could see where he might. let me go back to what concerns democrats should have in the senate, in the white house now, about voter